⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

I’ve been using a Panasonic UJ-260 slim DVD/CD burner in an external enclosure for a while. It’s generally reliable, but I was running into occasional issues with burning certain DVD+R DL media and slow read speeds on scratched discs. Decided to hunt down the latest firmware and give it a go.

Look for the “RPC1” patched firmware if you want to remove region coding for DVDs – but that’s a separate mod, not official.

Finally updated my UJ-260 – here’s what changed (and what didn’t)